IN THIS ISSUE

  • Watch 2 inspiring graduation speeches on humanism
  • Gold & NextGenU.org launch free course on dismantling structural racism
  • Gold and GCC member Medallia build a tool to measure humanistic care
  • Nominate a woman for the Pearl Birnbaum Hurwitz Award by June 12
  • Congratulations to the newest members of the worldwide GHHS community
  • Final GHHS Well-being Workshop tackles grief over patient loss
  • Join us at the Gold Foundation’s Annual Gala on June 20 in New York City
  • Celebrate the power of film at the 7th Annual UnLonely Film Festival
  • Sign up for a Mindful Practice workshop or retreat
Watch 2 inspiring graduation speeches on humanism
Dr. Levin pictured alongside Gold Trustee & Columbia Nursing Dean Dr. Lorraine Frazier
Gold Foundation President and CEO 
Dr. Richard I. Levin recently gave the commencement address for Columbia University School of Nursing and accepted the Second Century Award for Excellence in Healthcare.


Dr. Levin also traveled to Puerto Rico to give the keynote speech to graduating residents at Dorado Health. As he so powerfully said, "While your contemporaries look to find meaning in their individual sectors, meaning will never be absent in medicine."
Dr. Manning speaking to graduates at the University of Florida College of Medicine
“Some of the best advice that I ever received was to begin all things with gratitude. It is the panacea for burnout...Gratitude brings you back to your true north.” — Gold Trustee Dr. Kimberly Manning of Emory University School of Medicine and Grady Health System spoke at the University of Florida College of Medicine's 2023 Commencement Address

Dr. Karinn Glover
Dr. Ruth Shim
This free course — sponsored by the Gold Foundation — provides an introductory exploration of health equity, including structural racism, health inequities, and social determinants of health.

Gold Course Directors Ruth S. Shim, MD, MPH, and Karinn Glover, MD, MPH, developed the course in collaboration with the NextGenU.org team. The course includes three videos and 19 course readings and is designed for healthcare executives, healthcare professionals, policymakers, community leaders, and health professions students who are interested in advancing health equity and taking first steps towards dismantling structural racism.

How can you measure humanistic care? The Gold Foundation and Medallia, a market leader in patient experience and a Gold Corporate Council member, have been tackling this question together. Through this ongoing collaboration, the two organizations have created a new tool designed to help identify humanistic, compassionate behaviors that can help to build trust between patients and clinicians.

Do you know a remarkable woman who exemplifies humanism in the healthcare arena?

The Pearl Birnbaum Hurwitz Humanism in Healthcare Award is presented annually to a woman who exemplifies humanism and has advanced, through her scholarship, advocacy, leadership or work, the well-being of underserved or at-risk populations in the healthcare arena. The award is open to professionals in any field.

Deadline: June 12
Congratulations to the newest members of GHHS!
Columbia University Vagelos College
of Physicians and Surgeons
From left, GHHS member and student inductee Veronica Kane, Vice Dean for Education Monica Lypson, Gold co-founder Dr. Sandra Gold, GHHS member and student inductee Daniel Pohl, and Columbia Dean Lisa Mellman.
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Pictured are SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University medical students and new members of GHHS.
More than 180 chapters of the Gold Humanism Honor Society across America and the world are inducting new members this spring. These medical students and physicians are leaders in humanistic care who have been nominated by their peers. This worldwide community helps make our mission of humanism in healthcare for all possible. Congratulations to the newest members of GHHS!
"Grief Over Patient Loss: a collective debriefing through poetry and prose" will be hosted online on June 13 by Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Hackensack Meridian Health. Instructor Amira Athanasios, MD, a psychiatry resident with Jersey Shore University Medical Center, will discuss the topic of grief, including best practices and recommendations from the literature, and review different types and models of grief. The majority of the session will be a collective, poetry-writing, process group involving questions about the personal grief experience; through anonymous answers, a poem about our collective experience will be crafted together in real time. Mental health resources will be provided at the end of the session.

The “Connecting With and Prescribing Healing Nature” virtual workshop was hosted in May as part of the GHHS Well-being Workshop Series. Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, PhD, Director of the Medical Humanities Program at the University of Florida College of Medicine, led the workshop. This recorded event was designed to help healthcare professionals and students develop their own healing nature practice, as well as learn ways to facilitate patients finding their healing nature practices.

Gold Trustee and Host Dr. Kimberly Manning celebrating with medical students at last year's Gold Foundation Gala.

Did you know we offer reduced-rate tickets for young professionals? Contact Kerry Richardson-Ford at kerry@gold-foundation.org for more information.
The Annual Gala marks a special time each year when the Gold Foundation gathers its community in a singular celebration of humanism in healthcare. This year, we return to the beautiful Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York City on Tuesday, June 20.

This year’s ceremony will honor four medal honorees: global nursing leader and Dean of the College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences at Howard University Dr. Gina S. Brown; visionary physician President and CEO of the Gold Foundation Dr. Richard I. Levin, who will be stepping down this summer after an extraordinary 12-year tenure; national health policy leader, founding Dean and President Emeritus of the Morehouse School of Medicine, and former Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Honorable Dr. Louis W. Sullivan; and pioneering nursing leader and Dean at the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing Dr. Eileen Sullivan-Marx. Amazing Gold Trustee Dr. Kimberly Manning will be returning to host the Annual Gala.

Join The Foundation for Art & Healing for Season 7 of the UnLonely Film Festival, which features 30 short, powerful films that will be available free to watch over the next year. The UnLonely Film Festival will host a Virtual Launch Event on Sunday, June 4, at 7 pm ET, when this year's winners will be announced by Mike Paseornek, former president of Lionsgate Films. UnLonely Film Festival was created to raise awareness of the negative physical and mental health consequences of loneliness. These award-winning short films give voice to the loneliness epidemic and represent the many lived experiences with isolation.

Mindful Practice co-founders Dr. Ron Epstein and Dr. Mick Krasner invite you to attend a 3.5 hour live on-line interactive workshop on June 13. Use the code GOLD0421 for 5% off.


Wishing you could bring Dr. Epstein and Dr. Krasner to your institution? You can! The Gold Foundation helps facilitate workshops for our Gold Partners Council institutions. Reach out to Pia Pyne Miller, MPH, Senior Director of Strategy and Business Development, for more information at pmiller@gold-foundation.org.
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